Uncle Baldy lived in north

Georgia near the Tennessee border.
His family got their water from a
spring near the front of his house.
Water in those days was always
considered a gift from above. Often
the people who built the spring would
drive a nail in a nearby tree and hang
a long-handled dipper on it. Anyone
who came along could quench his
thirst.
But if too many dipped into the
water, or if they weren’t careful and
knocked dirt in it, Uncle Baldy would
get angry and yell at them for “riling
up”his spring.

Several weeks later, one of the
parents happened to step backward into a
clump of weeds and got stuck in deep
mud. Realizing what he had found, he
and some of the men brought shovels
and dug around the mudhole. Soon a thin
stream of water
began to trickle
out. Now the
school had its
own water supply.
Across the road,
Uncle Baldy’s
spring was a dry
wooden box stuck
in the ground.
Evidently, the
spring had decided to cross the road
and join the school!
“

Moral: Those who are generous gain
more, while those who are stingy lose
out.